The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-09-17
STATE NEWS.

MofehaHsc aithisl The Yoracious
cotton worm having eaten up al the
cotton IL Alorehonae parish will now.
proceed to crawl Id his hole and pull
the hole IN after him.
hayne Signal It's asad and solemn
fact thas the caterpillaFs have abont
put aHtap t. The growth Of cotton 10
this parish, ana Tie crop will be very
short ii consequence ID most in
saances The crop viii be cut Of more
illan Aaif
AlczaHdria Toiga Talk Some Of
the farmers who have called on Us re-
Gently, say that the caterpillar has
played havoc with their cotton.
Wherever poison has not been used
on young Gotten the worms have de-
gouFed il.
0pels8ias Goarier There Is bat
little stock water left in oar prairies
nom Many of our planters have had
to drive their cattle to the bayons ia
order ID get water. a great many
wells are dry, and many persons have
70 60 miles to get drinking water.
Washington argus Willie Hunt,
residing on Geo. Dole's place on the
Atchafalgya, in this parish, is the
owner Of "a cor, winch when one year
and ten months old was delivered of a
calf Lately she has gwen birth to
another call, being at the time two
years and eleyeRmonths old. Mother
and offspring are doing well.
Iberia Farmer: The aatcrpillars
have caused sad havoc in the yonng
cotton. The loss as far as We can learn
is about half In the old cotton no
appreciable damage has been done es-
peeially where the plants have BEEN
f.topped. Take all in all, the crop as
we estimated before, may be elassed,
ono.eighth or one.fourth above the av.
erage. Not bad.
TerreboBue Times. The e. S. dredg,
boat Il ont Of the woods, this side oil
6r. r. r, Barrow's residence and
making good Roadway towards town
1t has about two miles yet 10 dig be-
fore it completes its contract. We
hope the appropriation will permit il
10 dredge a short distance above the
town site so as to give us deep water
in the whole length Of the bayou front
ing Houma.
Boyce Headlight Mr.. George
Hickman, a farmer living near Fair
mount, has practically demonstrated
during this year, what can be done
with ar acre Of land. On a single
acre be has already raised forty bush,
els of corn aud five hundred water
melons. The melons averaged Is lbs.
each in=weight, the largest weighing
AS lbs. Mr.. Hickman is now prepar-
ing 70 plant the same acre Of ground
in turnips Nothing ike good land
and good farming.
St. Landry Democrats During the
present year VIC have heard Of two OF
three rice mills that were 10 be bailt
in Opelousas. One was 10 be built
with Northern capital, which was anx
iously seeking investment at this par
tieular place, and one was 10 be {
home enterprise. In fact, for TIC lat
ter, company was organized, ant
stock taken sufficient to build it. Blu
no site was selected aud bought, u,
brick, lumber, or machinery were pur
chased nothing was done beyond
mere Rofdssoraly Or on paper.
Rayne Signal: The activity w
noticed in the Lumber trade a week 0
50 ago still continues the lumbe
yards are filing up, and at Que tim
this week we counted many as seve
heavily loaded cars of lumber standing
near our Office tor this place, an
teams are daily engaged in esrryin
this material to the interior, which
one Of the must solid evidences of tb
Improvement of our part of Lousian
This material is being put into GOO
houses and fences and must neeessarl
make favorable show in the countr
lberja Enterprise For the pa
two weeks there has been consider
BILE rivalry between home ginners al
outside buyers of cotton aud Il
planters have been reaping the ber
it, Last week the price paid f
seed Gotten ranged from S26 10 S
per thousand pounds, the ruling priI
however, being s26.5O. This we
the price has gone down to 1875.
and S25.75. The same rivalry aexi,
at AbbeyilIe, but there the high,
piice, paid has been $25. In that 81
tion the crop is not as forward as
Iberia, and up 10 last Tuesday b
little Of the staple had been offer
for sale.
ST. Mary JHsrald: Prof. Vile
chemist Of the United States Ag
cultural Department, said to the Tim
Democrat correspondent in speakil
Of the diffusion experiment plant I
magnolia plantation, that judgiI
from the samples be had received,
would not have to go out of the Gu
States for the Ignite be would nse
the furnaces He hal just receive
additional samples from Texas, Loui
lana, Mississippi and Arkansas, all 4
which are quite good enough for thi
purpose. He is about to begin car
fuI analysis Of them. The Louisiar
samples are from Ayery's Island.
Ruston Caligrqph Mr.. J. Al. Go
I'm planted this year seyen-eigbths I
an acre Of lard on bis residence 10
ihree.quarters or q mile from town,
corn and peas. Tic put $3.50 wort
objection seed meal Oh the plot (
ground, aud having no horse himsel
paid s5 ier blowing. iIe gatbere
The crops from the land several IA,
sso with the foliowing result: Sc
epstwo bushels 81 corn, 800 buudl
sdas Say bundles 81 hay aHd /,
pasbe ef peaa Hlgare % the Val
az thase afafie NJ tnag1fet galne apan